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London: Hart Davis MacGibbon, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Printing. 8vo. 115 pp. Gold cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; beige endpaper maps. Light rubbing on the edges of the dustjacket with some wear at the foot of the spine; price intact; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: The Early Settlers; Sugar and Slavery; Cavalier and Roundhead; The Century of Wars; The End of Prosperity; The Abolition of the Slave Trade; Barbados in the Nineteenth Century; The Jewish Settlement in Barbados; Religion and the End of Slavery; and Towards Independence; followed by an appendix: A Three Day Tour of the Island; and an index..
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BARBADOS - A History of Barbados
by Tree, Ronald
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BASEBALL'S CANADIAN-AMERICAN LEAGUE
by Pietrusza, David (foreword by John Thorn)
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Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiv) 222 pp. Dark blue cloth lettered in white on the front panel and spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings; illustrated with black and white photographs. As issued, no dustjacket. The full title is: BASEBALL'S CANADIAN-AMERICAN LEAGUE - A History of Its Inception, Franchises, Participants, Locales, Statristics, Demise and Legacy 1936 - 1951..
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THE EAGLE AND THE FORT - The Story of John McLoughlin
by Morrison, Dorothy Nafus
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Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1984. Book. Illus. by John Hart;. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Edition. 8vo. (x) 178 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat, uncreased but slightly faded spine; no interior markings. Cover art by John Hart. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and artwork. The Contents are: Author's Note; The Flight; Lords of the Lakes and Forests; The Grear Fur War; To the New Fort; Getting Started; The White-Headed Eagle; A Greater Fort Vancouver; Dr John's Dream; End of Isolation; and Zenith..
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FOLKLORE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS - An Annotated Bibliography
by Ullom, Judith C.
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Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (x) 126 pp. Beige cloth decorated with a lavender pictorial on the front panel; lettered in brown on the spine; headband; illustrated with line drawings. Light wear on the corners; no dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: General Background: The Primitive Folktale; Studies; Anthologies; Children's Anthologies; Bibliographies and Indexes. North American Culture Areas: Eskimo; Mackenzie; Plateau; North Pacific; California; Plains; Central Woodland; Northeast Woodland; Iroquois; Southeast; and Southwest; followed by an index..
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GHOST SHIPS OF THE GREAT LAKES - with - TRUE TALES OF THE GREAT LAKES
by Boyer, Dwight
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New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Editions. 8vo. (xxii, ix) 294, 340 pp. Pale green cloth lettered in dark green and gray on the spine; green endpapers; gray upper edge; headband; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Gray cloth lettered in silver on the spine; red endpapers; red upper edge; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Both books have light edge and corner wear on the dustjackets; both are price clipped; and neither one has any interior markings. The Ghost Ship Contents are: The Luck of Mr Murphy; The Flying Dutchman of Lake Superior; Hard Times for the Benjamin Noble; Eight Bells for the Clifton; Soft and Brown... with a Touch of Green...; A Matter of Professional Pride; With the Best of Intentions; A Very Determined Man; Where Is the Kamloops; Knives in the Lifeboat; The Prophetic Passing of Captain Napier; Don't Change Her Name; That Damnable Nuisance Mrs Doupe; And Then There Were Two; A Family Affair; Telegram for…
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THE GODS AND SYMBOLS OF ANCIENT MEXICO AND THE MAYA
by Miller, Mary; TAube, Karl
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London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First British Edition. 8vo. 216 pp. Burgundy boards decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; headband; illustrated with 260 black and white images. The cover features a page from the 16th Century Codex Borbonicus. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings..
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THE GREAT NORTH TRAIL - America's Route of the Ages - The American Trails Series
by Cushman, Dan (edited by A. B. Guthrie)
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New York: McGraw Hill Ryerson, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 383 pp. Blue cloth decorated in green, silver and gilt; brown endpapers. Illustrated with maps. Light wear to the edges of the dustjacket with a 1 inch closed tear on the upper right corner of the rear panel; price clipped; previous owner's name on the front pastedown beneath the flap; no other interior markings. The Chapters are: Trail of All Ages; The Faint Tracks of American Man; The Buffalo Trails; Prairie Gold and Mountain Silver; The Longknives; The Golden Trails of British Columbia; The Gold Trails of Montana; Trail of the Three-toed Horse; The Cattle Trail - North from Texas; Home in Wyoming; The Great (Whiskey) Whisky Trail; The Road North - Klondike; Klondike to Nome; and Barbed Wire - The Fenced Trail..
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THE GREAT NORTH - A Collection from Harper's Magazine
by Anonymous (editor)
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New York: Gallery Books - W. H. Smith Publishers, 1990. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 531 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Glossy pictorial boards matching the dustjacket; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Illustrated with over 300 line drawings. This collection contains: Antelope Hunting in Montana; Quebec; First Impressions of Civilization; Through Inland Seas; Chicago; Gamesters of the Wilderness; Hunting the Grizzly Bear; Winter in Canada; Stubble and Slough in Dakota; The Rescue of the Whalers; The City of the Straight; A Day's Drive with Montana Cowboys; In a Habitant Village; Your United States; Wintering Among the Eskimo; Milwaukee; My Explorations in Unknown Labrador; Indian Education; Montreal; Four Days in a Medicine Lodge; The Passing of the Fur Seal; The Three Tetons; A Canadian Pilgrimage; Some Americans from…
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MYTHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
by Spence, Lewis
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New York: Gramercy Books, 1994. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Later Printing. 8vo. (xv) 393 pp. Quarter-bound in beige cloth on brown boards; lettered in copper on the spine; headband; illustrated with colour plates. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Divisions Customs and History of the Race; The Mythologies of the North American Indians; Algonquian Myths and Legends; Iroquois Myths and Legends; Sioux Myths and Legends; Myths and Legends of the Pawnees; and Myths and Legends of the Northern and North Western Indians; followed by a glossary and an index..
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THE NELLIE J. BANKS
by Robinson, Geoff; Robinson, Dorothy
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Summerside, Prince Edward Island: Private Printing, 1987. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Later Printing. 8vo. (iii) 100 pp. Signed by Geoff Robinson on the inside of the front cover. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes a dropped-in add for two books by this author..
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RACING THE WHITE SILENCE - On the Trail of the Yukon Quest
by Killick, Adam
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Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2002. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xii) 375 pp. Quarter-bound in blue on gray boards; lettered in gray on the spine; endpaper maps; headband; illustrated with black and white plates, photographs and maps. Light rubbing on the corners of the dusjtacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Prologue: The Freezing Point of Fear; The Toughest Race on Earth; Grandma; Lights in the Sky; The Finest Athletes in the World; Soft Snow; Ice; Hup; Into the White Silence; Klondike; Jack; Frozen Air; The Last Frontier; The Code of the Trail; Visions; Mountaineering in Mukluks; The End; and Epilogue: A Perfect World..
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THE RUMRUNNERS - A Prohibition Scrapbook
by Gervais, C. H.
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Toronto: Firefly Books, 1980. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to. 149 pp. Oversized softcover. Edge and corner wear with some rubbing on the covers and an uncreased spine; faint marks on the lower edge of the first few pages; no other interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Contents are: Foreword; Rounders and Rumrunners: King Canada - Blaise Diesbourg and Al Capole; The Battle of Old Crow - Walter Goodchild; Whiskey Slides and Iron Boxes. Bylines About the Bad Old Days: Boozing in the Dry Days; Being Kidnapped by Rumrunners - Horace Wild; Prohibition - The Water Highway by Ron Scott. The Bad and the Brash: Harry Low's Millions; Brains Behind the Bootleggers - Fat Cecil Smith; In the Bad Old Days - Whitey Benoit; The Amiable Giant of Prohibition - James Scott Cooper. Liquor Flowed and The Dice Rolled: The Roadhouses. The Law, the Customs, the Ticket Collectors: Officials on the Fringe; The Fighting Parson - Reverend J. O. L. Spracklin.…
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STEAM NAVIGATION - and Its Relation to the Commerce of Canada and the United States
by Croil, James
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Toronto: Coles Publishing, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xiv) 381 pp. Burgundy cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel; decorated in black and gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. This reproduces the 1898 William Briggs edition. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: The Dawn of Steam Navigation; Early Years of Steam Navigation; The Cunard Steamship Company; North Atlantic Steamship Companies; Steam to India and the East; Steam in the British Navy; The St Lawrence Route; Steam on the Great Lakes; Steam Commerce of the Great Lakes; and Steam Navigation in all the Provinces of the Dominion and in Newfoundland..
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TALES FROM THE GREAT LAKES
by Townsend, Robert B. (editor) (based on C. H. J. Snider's Schooner Days)
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Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1995. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 203 pp. Trade paperback format. Light rubbing on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Illustrated with black and white photographs. This contains far too many stories to list them all here but some of the highlights are: Charles Henry Jeremiah Snider 1879 - 1971 - The Skipper; About the Old Schooners; Stonehookers; Last Coal of Last Century; At the Foot of the Highlands; Highland Creek and Rouge River; Frenchman's Bay; Gunboat Times on the Great Lakes; Millhaven and the Oliver Mowat; Toronto's Timbermen; Sails Still Shimmer on Napanee River; Why the Topmasts Were Sent Down; What Is a Shellback; Sending a Schooner Over Niagara Falls; and many more..
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THUNDERGATE - The Forts of Niagara - American Forts Series
by Howard, Robert West
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Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiii) 241 pp. Quarter-bound with black and green cloth; decorated with gilt on the front panel and spine; headband; endpaper maps. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with some chipping along the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: Section One: The Destiny Makers: The Ice Plow; The True People. Section Two: New France: A Road to Mexico; The Charred Cross; The White Indians; The Beautiful River. Section Three: A Daring Kind of War: A Man of Meath; The Pincers; Whaleboat Armadas; Death at the Shrine. Section Four: The Birth of the Upper Canada: Race War; Refugee Vengeance; The Niagara Plan of Edible Annex. Section Five: The Fight for the Lakes: Detour Decades; Mr Madison's War; There Were These Two Men Named Brown; Stalemate. Section Six: All the Past We Leave Behind: Patriots and Slaves; The Memory Places. Followed by: A Chronology…
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TRAPPER AND MOUNTAIN MEN
by Jones, Evan (with Dale L. Morgan)
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New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Printing. 4to. 153 pp. Pictorial boards; headband; decorated endpapers. Illustraed with paintings, prints, drawings, maps and photographs of the period. Ex-library copy but with light wear. The Contents are: Voyageurs of New France; New Netherland and Hudson Bay; Coureurs de Bois; France and England Lock Horns for a Continent; The Victor's Prize; In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark; Trapping the Parks of the Rocky Mountains; The Mountain Men; Five-Feet-Four but Cougar All the Way; and The Western Sea; followed by an index..
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